KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 — Over the past few days, major media outlets have reported a Nipah virus (NiV) ...

Nipah is a zoonotic virus first identified during a 1990s outbreak in Malaysia. It spreads through fruit bats, pigs and human ...

The World Health Organization reported two cases of a rare virus in an eastern Indian state on Thursday.

Health officials are closely monitoring a deadly Nipah virus outbreak after the World Health Organization confirmed two new ...

The federal government is closely monitoring an outbreak of Nipah virus in India but has not received any advice to tighten ...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the Department of Health (DOH) to implement tight monitoring of the Nipah virus (NiV), Malacañang said Thursday. NiV is a zoonotic disease — one that spreads ...

Australia has been advised to sharpen border controls for travellers arriving from India’s West Bengal where an outbreak of the Nipah virus – the world’s deadliest infectious disease – has sparked ...

Federal Health Minister Mark Butler has warned the Nipah virus is “very rare, but very deadly”, as he revealed Australia is not currently looking to change entry protocols at the border.

One of Australia’s closest neighbours has tightened its airport screening procedures after a deadly virus with a fatality rate of up to 75 per cent was detected in India.

It’s far deadlier than COVID-19, so could Australia be plunged into another lockdown over a Nipah virus outbreak? Here is ...